Kentucky Colonelcy–Official, Customary, Honorific 

The Office of the Kentucky Colonel (Kentucky Colonelcy) has brought together and revealed the most complete documentary record (public domain archive) before the US Sixth Circuit Court to define the "special rights, privileges, and responsibilities" pertaining to Kentucky colonels contemporaneously with the filing of 120 legal documents from more than 1,000 sources in 2025. The official story of the history and origin of the Original Kentucky Colonels is told as factual account, declared under oath, and under the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) 201, from a collection of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, book excerpts, governmental records, academic journals, and historical documents from 1780 through 1939.